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measured by the amount of the wages which [the injured person] would have earned during the period of his disability had he not been injured.” Dowling v. Shattuck, 91 N.H. 234, 242-43 (1941); see also Restatement (Second) of Torts § 906 comment c at 461 (1979).

State v. Fyffe, 588 N.E.2d 137, 139 (Ohio Ct. App. 1990); see McMullin v. Downing, 135 N.H. 675, 679, 609 A.2d 1226, 1229 (1992); Dowling v. Shattuck, 91 N.H. 234, 236, 17 A.2d 529, 532 (1941).

Although it is modeled after Federal Rule of Evidence 702, this court gives opinion evidence “a broader scope than [courts] in other jurisdictions,” id.; see also Rau v. Stores, 97 N.H. 490, 494, 92 A.2d 921, 924 (1952), and construes the rule liberally, see Dowling v. Shattuck, 91 N.H. 234, 236, 17 A.2d 529, 532 (1941).

Shattuck, Inc., 91 N.H. 234, 236, 17 A.2d 529, 532 (1941) (citation omitted).

In such circumstances there would be little chance that the psychiatric testimony would actually provide that assistance to the jury which is the justification for admitting expert testimony in the first place.

While opinion evidence (expert or otherwise) is not excludable solely because it bears directly on a main issue in the case, Rau v. Stores, 97 N.H. 490, 494-95, 92 A.2d 921, 924 (1952), it is admissible only if it might “aid the jury in their search for the truth.” Dowling v. Shattuck, 91 N.H. 234, 236, 17 A.2d 529, 532 (1941); see Currier v. Grossman’s, 107 N.H. 159, 161, 219 A.2d 273, 274-75 (1966).

one addressed to the sound discretion of the court below.” Dowling v. Shattuck, 91 N.H. 234, 236, 17 A.2d 529, 532 (1941).

Wrobleski v. Constellation Corp., 118 N.H. 532, 533, 388 A.2d 944, 945 (1978); Gauthier v. Bergeron, 107 N.H. 153, 154, 218 A.2d 433, 434 (1966); Dowling v. L. H. Shattuck, Inc., 91 N.H. 234, 236, 17 A.2d 529, 532 (1941).

*202 Assuming, without deciding, that plaintiff’s expert, Mr. Bolduc, was qualified to introduce and give his opinion upon the standards of the National Safety Council sought to be admitted (Dowling v. Shattuck, 91 N.H. 234, 17 A.2d 529 (1941)), the trial court was correct in its exclusion of them.

so superior to that of men in general ” that his views would “ probably assist the triers of the fact.

Draper Corp. v. Pitman, 97 N.H. 1, 4, 79 A.2d 833, 834; O'Haire v. Breton, 102 N.H. 448, 450, 159 A.2d 805, 807; Dowling v. Shattuck, 91 N.H. 234, 17 A.2d 529; 7 N.H.B.J.